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Hebrew Bible/Old Testament; Genesis; 1 Samuel; queer biblical studies; film/art in/and/of Bible; Bible yoga; biblical historiography; narrative literature; Bible and medicine.  

Old Testament/Hebrew Bible studies, feminist/gendered/queer (biblical) hermeneutics; epistemologies and sociologies of interpretation; cultural (esp. art and film) and literary studies; sexual violence in sacred texts

:: Visual Archaeology: Reading the Book of Genesis with an Artist. Sheffield Phoenix Press, forthcoming. 

:: 1 Samuel: A Conceptual Feminist Interpretation. Fortress Press, 2025.

:: Contemporary Yoga and Sacred Texts. Co-editor with Caroline Vander Stichele. London: Routledge, 2024.

:: Doing Biblical Studies as Feminist Biblical Studies: Critical Interrogations. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2023.

:: The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

:: The New Diaspora and the Global Prophetic. Co-editor. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2021. 

:: The Bible as Political Artifact: On the Feminist Study of the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2017.

:: Introducing the Women’s Hebrew Bible:Feminism, Gender Justice, and the Study of the Old Testament. Second Revised and Expanded Edition. T&T Clark Bloomsbury, 2017.

:: La Violencia and the Hebrew Bible: Politics and Histories of Biblical Hermeneutics on the American Continent. Co-editor. Semeia Studies. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2016.

:: Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect: Methods (Volume 3). Editor. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2016.

:: Hidden Truths from Eden: Esoteric Readings of Genesis 1-3.  Co-editor. Semeia Studies.  Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014.

:: Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect: Social Location (Volume 2). Editor. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014.

:: Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect: Biblical Books (Volume 1). Editor. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013.

:: God Loves Diversity and Justice: Progressive Scholars Speak about Faith, Politics, and the World. Editor. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.

:: Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010.

:: Introducing the Women’s Hebrew Bible. London: T&T Clark, 2007.

:: Biblical Studies Alternatively: An Introductory Reader. Editor. Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 2003.

:: Rape Plots: A Feminist Cultural Study of Genesis 34. New York: Peter Lang, 2000/2002.

John G. Gammie Distinguished Scholar Award – Southwest Commission of Religious Studies (SWCRS), March 2025; President of the Southwest SBL Region, 2020-2021; Catholic Biblical Association Research Grant (CBA), Fall 2020; Associate Editor, Catholic Biblical Quarterly (CBQ), January 2022-2028; Editorial Board Member, Journal of the European Society of Women in Theological Studies (ESWTR), 2020-2026; Series Editor of “Dispatches from the New Diaspora,” Bloomsbury Publishing, since November 2018; Series Editor of “Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts,” Bloomsbury Publishing, since 2014.